| This means Kim will have to forge a new coalition if he is not to serve out the remaining three years as a lame-duck president. |
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| Some critics carp that the trip is just a tourist jaunt by a lame-duck president. |
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| Before the speech started, one commentator said Bush ran the risk of being a lame-duck president for the next three years. |
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| Who transformed you from a lame-duck President appointed by the Supreme Court into a towering wartime leader? |
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| Under these conditions, it cannot be overemphasized that any lame-duck phenomenon by the government's economic leadership must be prevented. |
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| As a result, the Chen administration has become a lame-duck administration during the interim period before the year-end legislative elections. |
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| When Bush proclaimed homeland security the main business of the lame-duck session, the Democrats meekly complied. |
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| And President Bush is learning the lesson that on your first day of your second term, you're a lame-duck president. |
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| Congress today returning for a lame-duck session following the stunning Republican gains in the general election. |
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| The Tyneside North MP looks increasingly like a lame-duck minister who will finally slip from sight at the next reshuffle. |
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| This is the last chance for the lame-duck president to shore up his legacy. |
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| But the fact that it was a lame-duck president making the statement was somewhat downplayed in the news. |
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| We cannot limp along with no policy, no one obeying the Deputy Prime Minister and a lack-lustre, do-nothing government with a lame-duck leader. |
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| He's already a lame-duck leader, but if the nuclear-option strategy falls apart, Frist may have to give up his leadership post. |
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| But even as Giuliani's prominence in the city's recovery grows, his lame-duck status may hinder his efforts with the legislature. |
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| This will allow Pitt to remain temporarily as a lame-duck chairman, helping to stall any reform proposals. |
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| Even now, a week before the probable adjournment date, it is still uncertain whether this dilatory Congress will return for a lame-duck session after the Nov. 5 election. |
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| Then United Future came out with an absolutely lame-duck report saying they would be supporting the bill, so long as there was a corresponding reduction in taxation. |
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| During a long, drawn-out period in which he was essentially a lame-duck driver, Sadler never stopped being publicly gracious toward the team he was leaving. |
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| The Senate minority leader theorized that the vote might be delayed until a lame-duck congressional session after the election or even until next year. |
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| And why would she consign herself to lame-duck status, even if two years from now that might be her intention? |
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| A lame-duck period comes between the congressional election in November and the start of the new congress in January. |
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| After months of negotiations with the White House, he has decided to try to block the lame-duck Senate from ratifying the New Start arms control treaty. |
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| The late, great New York Times columnist and language expert might have wished to revise that definition in light of the current lame-duck session of Congress. |
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